Stenographer&#39;s note-book.



i li No. 875,756. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908. P. w. WARREN. STENIOGRAPHERS NOTEBOOK.

APPLICATION FILED FEBJI. 1907.

WITNESSES.- INVENTOR:

A TTO Y THE NORRIS PETERS ca WASNINGYON. 0 cv FRANK W. WARREN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

STENOGRAPHERS NOTE-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. '7, 1908 Application filed February 11,1907. Serial No. 356.768.

T 0 all whom it mwyconcem:

Be it known that I, FRANK N. \VARREN, citizen of United States, residing at the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new-and useful Improvements in Stei'iographers Note-Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in books such as are used by stenographers and for like purposes.

It consists in the combination and arrangement of lines and indicating characters upon the pages of the book, and in details which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which The figure is a perspective view of the book.

It is the object of my invention to provide improvements in connection with note-lwoks, such as are employed by stenographers, and for other like purposes, whereby the different parts of the page are so marked as to be easily referred to, either for the purpose of making interlineations, or to assist the operator in remembering points at which he may have discontinued the work of transcribing, and where the work is to be again taken up, without the necessity of reading over a considerable part of the page to find such a point.

The invention also provides spaces for the introduction of interlineations, and char-ac ters upon the pages to indicate where such interlineations are to be introduced.

My book is composed of leaves A of any suitable or usual size, ruled transversely, the lines of ruling 2 terminating at a considerable distance from the left side of the page as shown at 3. Upon this left side and exterior to the terminal boundary of the transverse lines, are imprinted lines a which may be placed in any suitable relation with the remainder of the lines upon the page. They are here shown as extending longitudinally, or from top to bottom of the page, and may be employed for interlineations.

At 5 and 6, I have shown letters, figures, or other characters extending from the top to the bottom of the page; one or more of said characters being permanently imprinted upon each of the transverse lines of the page. For convenience such characters may be placed at the end of each line, leaving the intermediate space clear for the notes.

Alphabetical letters may be used at one end of the line, and. figures at the other. Thus, if an interlincation is made at some point on the page, it will be found to coincide with or be near to one of the letters or figures, where a slight mark may be made, and the same letter or figure being applied to the extra lines 4 which are designed for such interlineations, it is only necessary to refer to the figure marked upon such line to immediately find the point of the intm'lineation without waste of time. This is especially useful in case there should be several interlineations or corrections upon a single page; each one being indicated by the letter or character near which it occurs, so that the tendency to mistakes in correcting the page .is very much lessened. in transcribing the notes these characters are also valuable since they indicate the point where work has been left off, and where the continuation of the transcription commences. It is easy for an operator to note the character near which the work has temporarily ceased, as when looking from the notes to the machine, and to instantly find the place from which the transcription is to continue.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by lictters Pat- Ollb 15- 1. A stcnographcrs and ike note-book having horizontally ruled pages, with an unruled portion at one side for interlineations, a plurality of parallel vertically disposed indicating characters of different significance located contiguous to the ends of the lines, and lines extending longitudinally on the portion of the page unoccupied by the transverse lines.

2. In a stcnographcrs and like note-book,

CRAIGIE S. SHARP, M. K. LAUDEN. 

